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Right, I've just formatted my Hard Drive and put in my Recovery CDs but like a t*** I left my external 500GB Freecom Hard Drive still attached, so i dis-connected it, Re-ran the recovery and now I have a 5.33GB hard drive and NO photos.
There is 495GB of drive somewhere and 1) I can't get it back cuz im not sure where to do it and 2) my wife is gonna kill me if i cant find them photos......

System File: FAT32 if this helps

Need someones help ASAP please.....
 
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If the partition isn't there (ie it got wiped by the recovery tool) you're going to find it difficult to recover the files using software methods. Certainly not without some cost, at any rate.

By the way, doesn't this belong in the Hard Drives section?
 
Right click on My Computer, Manage. Look under disks, it should be there. Check that first of all. I would star out the swearing mate.
 
sr4470 said:
If the partition isn't there (ie it got wiped by the recovery tool) you're going to find it difficult to recover the files using software methods. Certainly not without some cost, at any rate.

By the way, doesn't this belong in the Hard Drives section?
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Actually, chances are if it was just the partition table that may have been cleared, the data should actually still be there.
 
right, im in Disk Management now.....This is what i have:
Basic
564.76GB
Online

(K:)
4.75GB FAT32
Heathy (Active)

461.01GB
Unallocated
 
Try right clicking on it (the Unallocated Space) and giving it a 'Drive Letter or Path'.

Don't click FORMAT though!

Good luck in getting these files back.
 
what ever you do DON'T format.

There is a good chance of getting the data back. you're going to need some good data recovery software and it's going to take a while (a few days)

run several recovery tools and be prepared to wait as they do take a while.

but above it all don't panic.

ps, data recovery software isn't cheap and free versions of it aren't worth bothering with.

let us know how you get on.;)
 
blastman said:
what ever you do DON'T format.

There is a good chance of getting the data back. you're going to need some good data recovery software and it's going to take a while (a few days)

run several recovery tools and be prepared to wait as they do take a while.

but above it all don't panic.

ps, data recovery software isn't cheap and free versions of it aren't worth bothering with.

let us know how you get on.;)
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Any recovery software you do run don't stop them have way through....let them run fully.

Remember the guy with the 70Gb hard drive that was on ebay with 70Gb's worth of Pron on the drive!!! :D
 
swinnie said:
Try right clicking on it (the Unallocated Space) and giving it a 'Drive Letter or Path'.
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don't do this it will alter the TOC yet again, recovery programs can usually search unallocated spaces. Leave the disk as it is and get downloading some free data recovery. I've used getdataback successfully on a formatted hard drive before, lost my dissertation, but it found it. Thank heavens for that 10k words and an almost complete program.
 
A similar thing happened to me, I had a USB IOMEGA drive attached while I recovered an opearting sytem on a multi-boot system. When I rebooted into the O/S after recovery the USB drive was not recognised by Windows at all. I tried to get it working for a few hours and nothing worked, I could see the drive as online in Disk Manager but windows would not assign a drive letter or let me see it, I couldn't path to it in DOS....nothing seemed to work.

What did work was I rebooted the system and pushed the alt boot menu, and selected the USB drive to boot this obvioulsy gave an "operating system not" found error, but when I booted back into the O/S again hey presto the logical drive showed up. It seemed as if recovering the O/S with the drive attached had left the logical drive in an underermined state, or it had been hidden somehow.

Don't know if this will help but worth a shot if you havent lost the rag already and formatted it. Don't know if you motherboard has a "boot other device" menu but most recent boards have this feature.

Good luck.
 
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